Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled that the state must issue accurate death certificates to all surviving same-sex spouses.
The AHCA’s effects on people living with or at higher risk for HIV could be devastating. And for those for whom multiple systemic oppressions intersect, the AHCA could be deadly.
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit largely affirmed a lower district court’s ruling dismissing the lawsuit of Jameka Evans, a security guard who was targeted for harassment and effectively terminated from her job at Georgia Regional Hospital because she is a lesbian and didn’t conform to gender norms in her appearance and demeanor.
Lambda Legal submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court today in a case brought by the ACLU on behalf of Gavin Grimm, a transgender student barred from using the boy's room in Gloucester County, Va., public schools.
A federal district court judge today ruled in favor of three Lambda Legal clients – transgender students at Pine-Richland High School – and ordered the suburban Pittsburgh school district to allow the students to use the bathroom that matches who they are.
The American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal, groups that are representing LGBT North Carolinians in a federal lawsuit challenging House Bill 2, say they oppose a new proposal to repeal the law because it still enables discrimination against LGBT people.